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Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you are all having a good day today.
It is a new month and that means a new bunch of books coming out which I will be sharing with you today.
Happy Monday bookish people! I hope you are all having a good day today.
Today I am bringing you my book review of The Suspect by Rob Rinder, the second book in his Adam Green series.
Blurb/Synopsis:
**THE GRIPPING SECOND NOVEL FROM ROB RINDER AND FOLLOW-UP TO NO. 1 BESTSELLER THE TRIAL**When Hannah Holby, darling of UK morning TV, dies live on screen in front of millions of viewers, the nation is devastated.More devastated still when it becomes clear that her death was not an accident.The evidence points to one celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks. But junior barrister Adam Green is about to discover that the case is not as open-and-shut as it first seemed.And although Hannah’s angelic persona would suggest otherwise, she was not short of enemies in the glittery TV world . . .Can Adam uncover the truth?
My Review:
I read the first book in this series, The Trial, a while ago and I liked it but I found Adam’s character a little unlikeable to begin with but after reading the second book I like him a lot more now. This book drew me in straightaway, it was a complicated web of secrets and lies. I enjoyed how Adam was being dragged into a case he wasn’t really interested in being part of. It was a fun ride because it is different to any other murder mystery I have read.
star rating:
If you have read this book, let me know in the comments what you thought of it!
Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a good day today.
September is a busy busy month for me. I start my final year of my PhD and I am writing a second novel alongside it, I am also rearranging and redecorating my house so everything is all over the place at the moment but I am hopeful that I will still get some reading done.
These are the books on my September TBR:
Happy Monday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a good day today. It is the end of August already and time to talk about what I read this month.
I will tell you that I shocked myself with how well my reading went this month, what with a trip to London and back I got a lot of reading in.
So, for the first time since I started this blog I have completed a TBR and I’m quite proud of that. Not all of the books I read this month were ones I enjoyed but some of them I did which made it a successful month in my opinion.
How was your reading this month? Let me know in the comments!
Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a good day today. I found this tag on Confessions of a Serial Reader but they said the first person who did it was Deana @thecomfyreader
Onto the tag!
I chose Love Him To Death by Tanya Landman. Amateur sleuths poppy and graham end up with Poppy’s Mum at a celebrity wedding on an island and things start going wrong…
The Dog Sitter Detective Takes the Lead by Anthony Johnston, the main character Ginny is hired by a rockstar musician to look after his dog while he goes away on tour and then they all get caught up in the murder
Most of the books I read have juicy secrets but the one that jumped to mind was Last Girl Breathing, it was an intense thriller filled with secrets, honestly you wouldn’t see the twist coming.
A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle, I haven’t read it yet but I know it is a murder mystery set on a boat so that works for water.
I chose romance as a whole genre because it is not something I read much so when I do it feels a bit like a guilty pleasure read
I chose The Jewelled Moth by Katherine Woodfine because the main group is four characters and I love reading about their friendship
What else could I pick but the Lord of the Rings, the ultimate adventure.
I chose The Cat Who Caught A Killer, one of the worst books I have read, I did not enjoy it at all and I could not suspend my disbelief enough for a talking cat helping her solve mysteries I just couldn’t.
Plus One by Kelsey Rodkey, it is a sweet romance, I liked it a lot
This might be controversial but I had to choose Mal from Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Happy Monday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a good day today.
Today I am bringing you my book review for The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth by Katherine Woodfine.
Blurb/Synopsis:
The honour of your company is requested at lord beaucastle’s fancy dress ball. Wonder at the puzzling disappearance of the Jewelled Moth! Marvel as our heroines, Sophie and Lil, don cunning disguises, mingle in high society and munch many cucumber sandwiches to solve this curious case! Applaud their bravery as they follow a trail of terrible secrets that leads straight to London’s most dangerous criminal mastermind, and could put their own lives at risk…It will be the most thrilling event of the season! This is a fast-paced and compelling mystery adventure with gorgeous Edwardian period detail, this is Mr Selfridge meets Nancy Drew!
My Review:
I read the first book in this series, The mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow, a while ago and I enjoyed it, I did but I haven’t really been thinking about it since then so I was almost at the point of unhauling this series because I didn’t think I was going to pick up the second one but then I did, and I loved it. This book I was hooked form the beginning, there are balls and disguises and a great group of protagonists and overall it was a fun time reading it.
This book is a middle grade but I didn’t think that the mystery felt young, it felt like it was well thought out and planned and it was just complicated enough to be fun and shocking.
Happy Monday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a good day today.
Today I am bringing you my book review for Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood.
Blurb/Synopsis:
Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project – a literal dream come true – Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward.
Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school – archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.
But when her equipment starts to go missing and the staff ignore her, Bee could swear she sees Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas… devouring her with those eyes. The possibilities have all her neurons firing.
But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there’s only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do?
My Review:
Okay, where to begin? It ahs taken me a long time to get around to reading this book. It has been on my shelf since the week it first came out and it has taken a long time to read it. I like Ali Hazelwood’s writing, it is the kind of writing that I fly through quickly but honestly, this book lost me towards the end.
I enjoyed the romance, the will they won’t they was actually quite fun with this book although some points were a bit like miscommunication and I do hate that trope but for the first half of this book I was quite invested, the idea was interesting and I am not in STEM so it’s nice to read about it and learn a bit about it while reading.
The part I did not like was the second half. Throughout there always felt like there was an undercurrent of something weird running alongside the romance part and I did think while reading I hope that part gets sorted in a minute because it was taking away from everything else, and I won’t spoil it for anyone who hasn’t read it, but this thread comes to a head near the end of the book and it was like, what am I reading? I really disliked what happened with the end of the book, it came out of nowhere and made no sense. I didn’t like it so it took away from my enjoyment of this book.
Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a good day today.
Seeing as it is now fully summertime I thought it would be fun to think back on the books I have read and give a few summer recs!
This is my second favourite Agatha Christie novel, second to Halloween Party, and there are village fairs and secrets and I adore this book.
It is literally in the title, and it is a great, twisty mystery. I know a lot of people like to read thrillers and mysteries in the summer and this would be a great choice.
This is a nice, sweet, summery romance novel and I think it is set in summer because it features a literary festival and they are mostly held in the summer months if they are outside.
This book is a sweet, cosy fantasy with some romance and it feels like a good summer read.
Even the colours on the covers of this series scream series, same as Vampire Academy the series gets dark in some places but it is a brilliant fantasy series great for the summer.
This is a nostalgic one for me, I love this series and it is a young adult vampire series, to me it just feels like a summer series, it gets dark in places but the characters and their humour keep things light.
Happy Monday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a good day today. It is August already, finally some of the summer weather is peeking out from behind the rain clouds. My Guide Dog is very happy about that, she loves sunbathing in the garden. What goes best with the summer? Reading, obviously. So it was time to decide on my August TBR and it was difficult because I have so many books that I want to read, but I did decide eventually on these books:
The odd thing about this one is that I have already read the second book in this series (oops!) I didn’t realise when I got the second book that it was part of a series, read it, loved it and then realised it was a series so I want to read this one quite quickly.
I have recently bought this and the premise sounds really interesting so it is high on my list to read.
This is another book I recently got after wanting it for a really long time and I haven’t been reading much fantasy at the moment so I am hoping to get back into it with this book.
This book is one I need to read so that I can mention it in my PhD theory work, I don’t think it would be a book I would pick up otherwise but hopefully it will be a good book.
I LOVE this series, it is a middle grade but the series is very sweet and magical and I am excited to read this next book.
This one I happened to pick up because I saw it on social media a lot and thought it looked interesting, I like books that include games and trials so hopefully this book will be great.
I have actually already started this book, I read 50 pages on the way home from a family trip and I already love this series so I am looking forward to keep reading this book.
Have you read any of these books?
What books are on your August TBR?
I hope everyone has a good reading month in August!
Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a great day today.
July is at an end and I think it is safe to say that it was my best month for reading so far this year, both in the amount of books and my enjoyment of those books.
So, my July TBR, technically I didn’t finish it because I didn’t read the exact books I put on it BUT I did read a bunch of books so I read more books than I put on my TBR so I am going to count that as finishing it.
This was my TBR:
I did not read this book, it was actually in the pile for me to read next, to break up some of the mysteries I have been reading like a palate cleanser, but I didn’t get around to it.
I am currently reading this book and I have three days left of the month so I am optimistic that I will finish this book by the end of July.
I did not read this book, I didn’t even think about it this month so hopefully I will get to it soon but that time is not yet.
I was excited about this book but as with A Feather So Black I haven’t been drawn to fantasy at the moment so I didn’t get around to it.
I did read this book, it is the second in the series and actually I enjoyed it more than the first book.
Outside of my TBR I have also read: I finished Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood, The King’s Mother by Annie Garthwaite (the best book I have read so far this year!), The Suspect by Rob Rinder, The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz, Queen Macbeth by Val Mcdermid, and I started Seven Likely Suspects by Katy Watson as well.
So in July I read 8 books this month! I am very happy with that amount. How has your reading been this month? Any great books?
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